Fruit and vegetable consumption is recommended in numerous food-based dietary guidelines and forms a key recommendation in many international statements related to healthy diets.

Background: In response to the high levels of maternal nutrition in Uttar Pradesh, Alive & Thrive (A&T) aimed to strengthen the delivery of nutrition interventions through the government antenatal care platform, including leveraging ongoin

Uttar Pradesh (UP) is the most populous state with the highest burden of undernutrition in India.

High quality fortified premixed cereals can help caregivers meet infants’ nutrient needs after 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding, as complementary foods alongside breastmilk especially where family foods have low nutrient density.

Despite strong policy and program commitment, essential maternal nutrition services are not reaching enough women in many countries.

Eliminating malnutrition is on many countries’ political agendas but knowledge of how enabling environments are created and used is needed.

Childhood height-for-age z-scores (HAZ) have been improving in many countries over the last few decades.

Adolescent wellbeing is now recognized as critical to breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty and malnutrition.

Most research on stunting in India ignores the role of diets, including the unusually high prevalence of lacto-vegetarianism (LVG).

Adolescent pregnancy is a global public health concern and one in five adolescents live in India, where early marriage is widely practiced.

In the context of large-scale interventions to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices, we examined differences in characteristics of those exposed and not exposed to interventions; exposure to interpersonal communication (IPC), in

We examined trends and inequities in the double burden of malnutrition among girls, boys, women and men by residence and wealth between 2006 and 2016 in India where 590 million individuals are expected to live in cities by 2030.

Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) are important national strategies to improve maternal and child health and nutrition.

In low- and middle-income countries, non-communicable disease (NCD) prevalence is increasing while undernutrition persists, resulting in a double-burden of malnutrition.

India accounts for a third of the global population of stunted preschoolers. However, very few studies have documented the timing of growth faltering in India, its evolution over time, or its variation over India's diverse regions.

Low BMI among women and girls has implications for their health and that of the next generation. Yet, little is known about the determinants of low BMI despite the known high burden of undernutrition in India.

The mental wellbeing of mothers with young children has been shown to positively affect child development.

Frontline health workers (FLW) are needed for delivering interventions at scale to reduce maternal and child undernutrition, but low- and middle-income countries often face inadequate FLW performance.

India rolled out ambitious program efforts for health and nutrition (H&N) in 2005–06, scaling up community H&N services through the National Rural Health Mission and the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS).